2 women stabbed to death, 3 injured in Zabul attack

QALAT (Pajhwok): Two women of a family have been killed and three others wounded as a result of a family feud in southern Zabul province, an official said Tuesday.

Provincial police chief Col. Ghulam Jilani Farahi told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Resali village on the outskirts of Qalat, the provincial capital, in the morning.

He said a person broke into his relative’s house and attacked several women with a knife. Two women were killed on the spot and three others wounded in the incident, he said. Police shifted the injured women to hospital.

One of the wounded women said that her relative came to her house and killed her mother and sister and left her and another woman injured.